Asked if they specifically discussed West’s campaign, Kushner said: “We had a general discussion more about policy.”
The remarks of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law come after The New York Times reported that West, after a camping trip with his family in Colorado, flew to meet privately with Kushner and White House adviser Ivanka Trump in Telluride, a ski resort town in the southwestern part of the state.
West that turns out confirm the meeting took place in a tweet posted Tuesday, writing that he and Kushner discussed it book “PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America” by Claud Anderson.
West announced on Twitter last month that he ran for president and told Forbes in an interview that he was no longer a Trump supporter. “I take off the red hat,” he said.
In another interview with Forbes last week, West did not refuse that his candidacy was intended to serve as a spoiler for the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign.
West’s quixotic White House has drawn checks in recent weeks amid efforts by some Trump supporters and Republican operatives to help him organize and get the vote in the field state states.
Kushner has also begun to get into controversy among critics who assert his potential impetus from West’s campaign to benefit Trump could constitute an illegal act.
Although West has successfully submitted paperwork as a third-party candidate in less than a dozen states, it remains unclear whether he will appear on the ballot in major Ohio and Wisconsin states.
West missed the deadline to register as a third-party candidate in 10 states, but he has said he will rely on registered votes in states where his name is not printed on the ballot.
